Barrett Jackman

I would imagine you were probably doing a lot, a lot of that in junior.

Um, I read that you were the youngest captain before Conor Bedard for the Regina Pats in the history of the organization.

Yeah, I was, uh, pretty rude that he took over that, uh,

He was the youngest captain.

But, yeah, we traded away a bunch of guys my second year.

And, yeah, they kind of saw that, you know, I could take over the helm.

And, you know, they gave me the C, which, you know, the Regina Pats is the oldest junior hockey franchise in the world.

So, you know, that stat was pretty cool.

Yeah.

fucking God's country.

He's right down the street.

He's from Castlegar.

It's Steve McCarthy, Ray Ferraro, Kevin Sawyer.

You know, Greg Adams is real close by.

There's a huge list of guys that are just kind of in that, you know, probably about a 30 mile radius and

Yeah, it was just small-town hockey.

I played single A growing up, and I've been playing the Jungle B, the Kootenai International Junior Hockey League for the Beaver Valley Nighthawks.

But, yeah, it was just a cool spot right in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains on the Columbia River.

You know, small-town mentality.

It's kind of like, you know, letter-kenning where, you know,